### Install meson and ninja
-Meson 0.48 or newer is required.
+Meson 0.52 or newer is required.
+
+For cross-compilation Meson 0.54 or newer is required.
On Linux and macOS you can get meson through your package manager or using:
The plugin will be automatically enabled if possible, but you can ensure it by
passing `-Dbad=enabled -Dgst-plugins-bad:msdk=enabled` to `meson`.
+### Static build
+
+Since *1.18.0* when doing a static build using `--default-library=static`, a
+shared library `gstreamer-full-1.0` will be produced and includes all enabled
+GStreamer plugins and libraries. A list of libraries that needs to be exposed in
+`gstreamer-full-1.0` ABI can be set using `gst-full-libraries` option. glib-2.0,
+gobject-2.0 and gstreamer-1.0 are always included.
+
+```
+meson --default-library=static -Dgst-full-libraries=app,video builddir
+```
+
+GStreamer *1.18* requires applications using gstreamer-full-1.0 to initialize
+static plugins by calling `gst_init_static_plugins()` after `gst_init()`. That
+function is defined in `gst/gstinitstaticplugins.h` header file.
+
+Since *1.20.0* `gst_init_static_plugins()` is called automatically by
+`gst_init()` and applications must not call it manually any more. The header
+file has been removed from public API.
+
+One can use the `gst-full-version-script` option to pass a
+[version script](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/LD-Version-Scripts.html)
+to the linker. This can be used to control the exact symbols that are exported by
+the gstreamer-full library, allowing the linker to garbage collect unused code
+and so reduce the total library size. A default script `gstreamer-full-default.map`
+declares only glib/gstreamer symbols as public.
+
+One can use the `gst-full-plugins` option to pass a list of plugins to be registered
+in the gstreamer-full library. The default value is '*' which means that all the plugins selected
+during the build process will be registered statically. An empty value will prevent any plugins to
+be registered.
+
+One can select a specific set of features with `gst-full-elements`, `gst-full-typefind-functions`, `gst-full-device-providers` or `gst-full-dynamic-types` to select specific feature from a plugin.
+When a feature has been listed in one of those options, the other features from its plugin will no longer be automatically included, even if the plugin is listed in `gst-full-plugins`.
+
+The user must insure that all selected plugins and features (element, typefind, etc.) have been
+enabled during the build configuration.
+
+To register features, the syntax is the following:
+plugins are separated by ';' and features from a plugin starts after ':' and are ',' separated.
+
+As an example:
+ * `-Dgst-full-plugins=coreelements;playback;typefindfunctions;alsa;pbtypes`: enable only `coreelements`, `playback`, `typefindfunctions`, `alsa`, `pbtypes` plugins.
+ * `-Dgst-full-elements=coreelements:filesrc,fakesink,identity;alsa:alsasrc`: enable only `filesrc`, `identity` and `fakesink` elements from `coreelements` and `alsasrc` element from `alsa` plugin.
+ * `-Dgst-full-typefind-functions=typefindfunctions:wav,flv`: enable only typefind func `wav` and `flv` from `typefindfunctions`
+ * `-Dgst-full-device-providers=alsa:alsadeviceprovider`: enable `alsadeviceprovider` from `alsa`.
+ * `-Dgst-full-dynamic-types=pbtypes:video_multiview_flagset`: enable `video_multiview_flagset` from `pbtypes
+
+All features from the `playback` plugin will be enabled and the other plugins will be restricted to the specific features requested.
+
+All the selected features will be registered into a dedicated `NULL` plugin name.
+
+This will cause the features/plugins that are not registered to not be included in the final gstreamer-full library.
+
+This is an experimental feature, backward uncompatible changes could still be
+made in the future.
+
# Development environment
## Development environment target
from the [git repository](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/) if you want to
use the latest master branch for some reason.
+**ARM64 native only**: You might need
+[native upstream ARM64 support fix](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/7432)
+which is expected to be a part of Meson 0.55.1.
+If your Meson package version which was installed via `pip3` is lower than 0.55.1,
+then you need to use [the latest master branch](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/).
+
### Running Meson on Windows
At present, to build with Visual Studio, you need to run Meson from inside the
+**ARM64 native only**: Since Visual Studio might not install dedicated command
+prompt for native ARM64 build, you might need to run `vcvarsx86_arm64.bat` on CMD.
+Please refer to [this document](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/building-on-the-command-line?view=vs-2019#developer_command_file_locations)
### Setup a mingw/wine based development environment on linux
projects / platform / upstream / gstreamer.git / blobdiff